Piaget's Stages of Cognitive Development

Avrielle saw her favorite teddy bear up the shelf. She gets a chair and climbs up in able to reach her teddy. Which substage of the Sensorimotor of Cognitive Development applies?

• Primary circular responses

• Secondary circular responses  

•  Coordinated secondary circular responses

• Tertiary circular responses

• None of the choices

James reached for his rattle toy which he likes to shake and then put it in his mouth. Which substage of the Sensorimotor of Cognitive Development applies?

•  Primary circular responses

•  Secondary circular responses

• Coordinated secondary circular responses

• Tertiary circular responses

• None of the choices

This is where the child follows the principle “If nothing is added or taken away, then the amount of something stays the same.”

• Sensorimotor

• Preoperational

• Concrete Operational

• Formal Operational

• None of the choices

Erika is playing with Legos, and she arranges the bricks by size or length, from largest to smallest. Erika utilized what kind of concrete operations?

• Classification 

• Identity

• Decentration

• Seriation

• None of the choices

 You may have seen a child playing pretend and engaging with a doll, teddy bear, or another character as if it were alive and spoke back to them. What sort of concrete operations was the child using?

• Identity

• Conservation

• Decentration

• Seriation

• None of the choices

Piaget married __________ in 1923 and the couple went on to have three children.

It is a unique and important period of human development.

Jean Piaget was a _________ psychologist and genetic epistemologist.

Wednesday Addams encounters many tasks while solving a mystery and she handles the process of information with ease. She accomplishes goals directly because she exhibits self-control. Based on Piaget's theory on cognitive development, what major developmental change does Wednesday exhibit?

Enid is an adolescent who is an exceptional student at Nevermore Academy. She is able to discuss abstract ideas in more sophisticated ways. According to Piaget what stage of cognitive development is Enid now?